OMG! I swear, that picture looks almost exactly like one my oldest brother had taken of him on a horse, about that same age....same brownish look to the whole tint/tone. My brother's had to have been taken in about 1942 or so...

It just seems like it was a year or two earlier .... but, I remember wrong.

A much ballyhooed impasse ensued. With major news attention focused on the situation, KGB unceremoniously fired the fowl in May, 1979 and went to court to block Giannoulas' right to work in a chicken costume. But the California Supreme Court instead went on to rule in Ted's favor and declare him to be a free as a bird of any ex-employer obligations.

June 1979 brought a new beginning. The Chicken returned big time. It was a glorious and elaborate entrance in a 10 foot Styrofoam egg, complete with Highway Patrol motorcade escort, atop an armored truck before a Padre game.